Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006023Sophronia Enters the Palace of Aladin
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto by the artist, upper edge, in pen and brown ink: "Mirata da ciascun passa è non mira"; bottom edge, in pen and brown ink: "la bella Donna e innanzi al Re sen viene (Admired by all, heedless went the lovely maid / ‘til to the presence of the king she came)"; upper right, in pen and brown ink: "1"; lower right, in pen and brown ink: "J.B."; verso, bottom edge of mount, in pen and brown ink underlined in graphite: "Andrea Boscoli florentino"
Provenance
Luca Fei, Filottrano, c. 1611. John Barnard (died 1784), London [script (Lugt 1419) recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink]; probably sold, Greenwood's, London, Feb. 24, 1787, lots 2 or 9. Baroness Jean de Nervo, 1964. Private collection, France; sold, Beaussant Lefévre, Paris, Dec. 18, 2002, lot 17. Sold by Jean-Luc Baroni, London, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, May 5, 2003 (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 15 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020; traveled to Berkeley, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Aug. 4–Nov. 28, 2021.
Publications
Julian Brooks, "Andrea Boscoli's 'Loves of Gerusalemme Liberata,” Master Drawings 38 (2000), pp. 452–53 (as missing). Elena Fumagalli et al., L'arme e gli amori: La Poesia di Aroiosta, Tasso e Guarini nell'arte fiorentina del Seicento, exh. cat. (Palazzo Pitti, 2001), p. 89 (as missing). Julian Brooks, Graceful and True: Drawing in Florence c. 1600, exh. cat. (Ashmolean Museum, 2003), under cat. 19 n. 2. Nadia Bastogi, Andrea Boscoli (Edifir, 2008), p. 204 n.157, and p. 202 n.237 (as location unknown).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Andrea Boscoli / Italian, 1550–1606
- Date
- 1604/06
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, over touches of red chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on blue laid laminated card
- Dimensions
- 23.9 × 17.9 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2022.67
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